Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 5 km ENE of Point MacKenzie, Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Point MacKenzie in Alaska. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/09/20 / 2020-09-11 21:34:24 / September 11, 2020 @ 9:34 pm. The temblor was reported at 21:34:24 / 9:34 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 31.39 km (20 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.8804 West, latitude 61.3695 North, depth = 31.39 km. Id of earthquake: us7000bm5q. Event ids that are associated: us7000bm5q.

Earthquake epicenter was 17 km (10 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-149.8804° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.3695° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31.39 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km ENE of Point MacKenzie, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-09-11 21:34:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-09-11 21:45:38	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	15	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	193	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.289	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.64 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	29	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000bm5q	Id of event.
Event Code	7000bm5q	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000bm5q,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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